The issue isn’t Brooklyn; it’s DeBlasio.
I have a friend who is knowledgeable about the many neighborhoods of Brooklyn. He says that although there was a generation long slide, now many neighborhoods are being rebuilt, gentrified, and occupied by young white and Asian professionals.
However, I think it would be great (for us) if the convention was held there. The symbol of the convention wouldn’t be Brooklyn, it would be the loud-mouth, uber-left Mayor DeBlasio and his freak family.
I think any of the three final choices will be very interesting to watch!
Brooklyn could be a very interesting choice, since shoddy police work is much like shoddy surgery and shoddy legal representation in that the result is mostly apparent well after the fact.
I attended a meeting in Philadelphia a few weeks ago -- the downtown was full of homeless people living in boxes and the streets stank of urine. It reminded me of pre-Giuliani New York. I suspect that the Philly PD's decline in morale is way ahead of the NYPD's.
Finally, I wonder if Columbus has enough prostitutes and drug dealers to satisfy the Democrat delegates. In any case, this should be interesting.